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Quotes About Defeat

I would hope no one would be satisfied with a loss.
~ Avery Bradley
No war is over until the enemy says it's over.
~ Jim Mattis
I feel embarrassed at times when I come off the pitch because we are losing games and not scoring goals and conceding goals. It's not nice.
~ Matt Doherty
My first match lasted 10 seconds, and I lost.
~ Roddy Piper
The humiliation of the North is complete and overwhelming.
~ Benjamin F. Wade
I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.
~ Rafael Nadal
That's painful always to lose.
~ Rafael Nadal
As you get older, the defeats become more painful. They definitely hurt more.
~ Brian O'Driscoll
Losing is very painful for me.
~ Luke Campbell
It's really, really painful for me to actually say the words out loud: 'I got beat.'
~ Luke Campbell
I can train players and talk about football. But losing as a manager was so painful, I couldn't live with it.
~ Marco van Basten
Our fans are emotional and these same people lift us when we win. But if they feel sad on a defeat we also feel the same way. We feel it much more because we are playing for Pakistan.
~ Sarfaraz Ahmed
I want the American people to understand, we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
~ Stanley A. McChrystal
I have the unique distinction of being on the only Olympic team to lose without controversy, and the only Pan Am Games team to lose without controversy.
~ David Robinson
I respect Demetrious Johnson to the fullest. I wouldn't travel the world and find different training partners and coaches to help me defeat this man if I didn't want to win.
~ Henry Cejudo
Thus the legend of the 'stab in the back' and the undefeated German Army had become historical truth
~ Peter Padfield
Philosophy, as Plato endowed it to posterity, is a child of defeat that simultaneously compensates for this defeat by ingeniously attacking it as the best form of defense.
~ Peter Sloterdijk
The vampires win every time.
~ Peter Watts
Denizde, dalgalar aras?nda bo?ulaca??n? anlad?ktan sonra hiç bir hareket yapmayarak kendilerini suya sal?verenler ve felâketi bir an evvel isteyenler gibi kendimi b?rakm??t?m. Bir ?ey ümit etmemenin rahatl???ndan ba?ka bar?nacak ruhi bir kö?em kalmam??t?. Art?k hiçbir ?ey tahmin edemiyor, hiçbir ?ey beklemiyordum.
~ Peyami Safa
Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. That's morality, that's religion. That's art. That's life.
~ Phil Ochs
success is an enemy to the losers of the day
~ Phil Ochs
Stack 'em like cordwood. Victory was a high body-count, defeat a low kill-ratio, war a matter of arithmetic.
~ Philip Caputo
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.
~ Philip K. Dick
Defeat: The Liberal Way of War After studying hundreds of books written by liberals about the Vietnam War, you realize that their prime objection to this war, waged by liberal presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson, was that it was just too hard to win. They never stepped back and recognized that what made it hard to win was fighting it the liberal way of limited war where you tell the enemy your limits;
~ Phillip Jennings